(a) Authorization. - The Department of Public Safety
may provide a criminal history record check to the Commissioner for a person
who has applied to the Commissioner for a new or renewal license as a bail
bondsman or runner. The Commissioner shall provide to the Department of Public
Safety, along with the request, the fingerprints of the new or renewal
applicant. The applicant shall furnish the Commissioner with a complete set of
the applicant's fingerprints in a manner prescribed by the Commissioner. The
Department of Public Safety shall provide a criminal history record check based
upon the new or renewal applicant's fingerprints. The Commissioner shall
provide any additional information required by the Department of Public Safety
and a form signed by the applicant consenting to the check of the criminal
record and to the use of the fingerprints and other identifying information
required by the State or national repositories. The new or renewal applicant's
fingerprints shall be forwarded to the State Bureau of Investigation for a
search of the State's criminal history record file, and the State Bureau of
Investigation shall forward a set of the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for a national criminal history check. The Department of Public
Safety may charge each new or renewal applicant a fee for conducting the checks
of criminal history records authorized by this subsection.

(b) Confidentiality. - The Commissioner shall keep all
information obtained pursuant to this section confidential in accordance with
applicable State law and federal guidelines, and the information shall not be a
public record under Chapter 132 of the General Statutes. (2009-536, s. 3; 2014-100, s. 17.1(o).)